Authors: Guillaume Tiberghien & Dominik Huber, PhD Candidates in Tourism (AUT)
Join the Research Roundtable and listen to Keri-Anne Wikitera and Guillaume Tiberghien. They will present the current state of their PhD research. Keri-Anne and Guillaume are currently PhD candidates in Tourism at AUT, and are both in the writing stage of their thesis.
Keri’s thesis examines cultural identity and Maori cultural sustainability within the context of Maori as travellers, as navigators and those now living within new diasporic communities. Her thesis is underpinned by a Maori theoretical and methodological. Keri would aim at discussing the structure of her thesis and how qualitative data can be presented for analysis. Guillaume undertook a research about authenticity and tourism in Kazakhstan with a focus on the neo-nomadic culture. He used a grounded theory approach to analyse his data and would aim at discussing his results with the round table in particular how to effectively discuss and compare the different themes that are emerging from his data in the construction of the discussion chapter.
We invited Hamish Bremner, Associate director at NZTRI and Programme leader of the Postgraduate Tourism Programmes. Hamish is specialized in indigenous tourism and is also respectively primary and secondary supervisor for Keri-Anne and Guillaume.
As always, please feel free to bring up any difficulties or issues you are currently facing in your own research project which we can discuss either immediately or as a next topic for following round tables. Just like last time we will have some tea, coffee and biscuits.
